--- title: The Mole: «I know it's a—shabby, dingy little place … not like—your… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole: «I know it's a—shabby, dingy little place … not like—your cosy quarters—or Toad's beautiful hall—or Badger's great house—but it was my own little home—and I was fond of it». Who acts: Hang River Bank, sob, shabby dingy little place. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hang River Bank, sob, shabby dingy little place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:17 # text = The Mole: «I know it's a—shabby, dingy little place … not like—your cosy quarters—or Toad's beautiful hall—or Badger's great house—but it was my own little home—and I was fond of it». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 dingy dingy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 16 … … PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 29 — - PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 35 — - PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 40 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 43 — - PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ _ 50 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Hang River Bank and supper *= bank* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sob | a shabby dingy little place or Toad's beautiful hall or Badger's great house | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | infinitive | a shabby dingy little place or Toad's beautiful hall or Badger's great house *not said here* | your cosy quarters | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | sob | my own little home | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Hang River Bank and supper *= bank* | | | | | of sob; fond *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/16/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/)